<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200505-17"> <title>Qpopper: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Qpopper contains two vulnerabilities allowing an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files and create files with insecure permissions. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">qpopper</product> <announced>2005-05-23</announced> <revised count="01">2005-05-23</revised> <bug>90622</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="net-mail/qpopper" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">4.0.5-r3</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">4.0.5-r3</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Qpopper is a widely used server for the POP3 protocol. </p> </background> <description> <p> Jens Steube discovered that Qpopper doesn't drop privileges to process local files from normal users (CAN-2005-1151). The upstream developers discovered that Qpopper can be forced to create group or world writeable files (CAN-2005-1152). </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A malicious local attacker could exploit Qpopper to overwrite arbitrary files as root or create new files which are group or world writeable. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Qpopper users should upgrade to the latest available version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/qpopper-4.0.5-r3"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1151">CAN-2005-1151</uri> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1152">CAN-2005-1152</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-05-10T16:31:30Z"> DerCorny </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-05-23T19:25:37Z"> jaervosz </metadata> </glsa>